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Let me tell you something, you can't really have achievement unless you disturb your peace.
Sol Chung discusses the necessity of sacrifice and risk in achieving greatness and how balance is crucial despite the challenges.
Key Takeaways
- Greatness requires accepting imbalance and sacrifice.
- Risk is an unavoidable part of life and achievement.
- Maintaining mental and physical health balance is crucial.
- Not taking risks leads to missed opportunities and losses.
- Sacrifice is necessary to avoid losing what you truly want.
Summary
- Achievement often requires disturbing your peace and accepting imbalance in life.
- David Goggins' idea that pursuing extraordinary goals leads to unbalance is highlighted.
- People may criticize or discourage you when you pursue ambitious goals.
- Mental and physical health can be affected when striving for significant achievements.
- Maintaining balance is essential to avoid sacrificing too much of your well-being.
- Sacrifice and risk are inevitable parts of pursuing what you want in life.
- Jim Rohn’s perspective on risk emphasizes that life itself is inherently risky.
- Choosing not to try or invest carries its own risks and consequences.
- Life’s risks include major decisions like marriage, children, business, and investments.
- Ultimately, not sacrificing for your goals means your goals become the sacrifice.
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I think that David Goggins said this one time, he said, if you're trying to achieve something crazy, you're trying to achieve something unnatural, you're going to be unbalanced, and that is the truth.
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You're going to have people telling you that what you're doing is hurting yourself, it's damaging yourself, you're going to have other people telling you that you need to stop, that you're crazy, that what you're doing is simply just insane.
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You will have people telling you all sorts of things, and you will be unbalanced, that is the truth, like other things in your life will take a hit, your mental health could take a hit if you were to try and achieve something that was seriously crazy.
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And that's just the nature of it, if you want to pour all of your energy into achievement and effort, something else is going to have a be a little bit unbalanced.
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You just have to keep everything in check so that it doesn't sway, it doesn't sacrifice too much of your mental or physical health.
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And that is so important to remember, but at the end of the day, there has to be some sacrifice to be made, there is always an element of risk involved, if you don't sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice.
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So just know, whatever you do, there will be risks, you can either do nothing and risk getting nothing, or do something and risk getting something.
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I think that Jim Rohn perfectly describes it, he says it's all risky.
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The minute you were born, it got risky, if you think trying is risky, wait till they hand you the bill for not trying.
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If you think investing is risky, wait till they hand you the tap for not investing.
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You see, life is all risky.
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Getting married is risky, having children is risky.
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Going into business is risky, investing your money is risky.
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It is all risky.
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And I'll tell you how risky life is, you're not getting out of it alive.
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So sacrifice, take risk.
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Because if you don't sacrifice for what you want, what you want truly becomes the sacrifice.
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And that is not a price you are willing to pay.
Topics:achievementsacrificeriskbalancemental healthDavid GogginsJim Rohngreatnessmotivationlife advice
